Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society
invites you to their next meeting
Saturday, Sept. 21 at History House
Meeting - 2:00 pm
Free Program - 2:30 pm

“Hattie Moulton Revisited.”
Presented by Sylvia Wilson

More about Hattie Moulton’s life and family as revealed in letters to her.
The William Moulton family was once well known in Parsonsfield and we have become familiar with them through letters and other historical documents.  We are particularly fond of Hattie, the youngest daughter, although we have no picture and never met her.
Perhaps you will be too.
Middle Road Village, Parsonsfield


History House
92 Main Street in
Kezar Falls Village
Route 160


Sunday, September 1, 2019

Last Chance to see "Her-Story"

Welcome to our fall
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019,   1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society
Last formal showing of  the Exhibit
“HER-STORY”

Remembering the Suffragettes who in 1919
finally won the right to vote for women in Maine
and
 Honoring some of the other remarkable women of our towns
and the State of Maine
by telling a few of their stories.

Come tour the house and view all the exhibits, browse our scrapbook collection and albums.
at
History House
92 Main Street in
Kezar Falls Village (Rt. 160)

FMI call 625-7019

One of our favorite local remarkable ladies included in this exhibit is Dottie Locke.
This is
HER STORY:
Dorothy Gilman Locke  (1921-2016)
Dorothy Gilman, known to most as Dottie, only child of Arthur and Olive (Gray) Gilman was born in Porter, Maine on the family farm which would remain her life-long home. Unlike most farm girls of the time, Dottie attended the University of Maine Orono receiving a degree in Education in 1942.

She worked for Piscataqua & York County 4-H Extensions, taught four years at Cornish High School, then fourteen years at Sacopee Valley High School teaching home economics to many still living. 

More importantly, Dottie exemplifies the truth that one need not do extraordinary things to be an extraordinary person.  While working full-time, maintaining a busy household with her husband Clayton Locke, and the mother of two she still found time to work for the betterment of her community through her work with the Porter Grange, Riverside Methodist Church, LMR Club, Porter Union Workers and Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society among others.


Dottie was skilled at sewing, knitting and a wonderful cook and used these skills often in her community service.  She was known for years as "the pie lady".

She passed away Sept. 19, 2016 at the age of 95. 

Dottie's portrait in First Person Rural: A Portrait of a Maine Town by Patricia Turner